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Inspiration comes in all forms for athletes of all shapes, sizes, ages and abilities: Every soul who comes to Earth, With a leg or two at birth, Must wrestle his opponents knowing It is not what is, It is what can be that measures worth. Make it hard, just make it possible. And through pain, […]
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SAN ANTONIO. Denny Ryther was appointed as chairman of the Unión Americana de Natación (UANA or the Amateur Swimming Union of the Americas) Technical Open Water Swimming Committee. His tenure will be from November 2012 to October 2015. Denny, a long-time USA Swimming national open water swim team manager and administrator, will head an esteemed
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The world has innumerable locations for incredibly hard open water swims. Rough conditions, cold water, sharks, jellyfish, tides, currents, long distances, high altitudes and logistical considerations are the primary obstacles. What are some of the swims in the Northern Hemisphere that would be on the ultimate open water swimmer’s
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The famed Potato Patch is a shoal that forms a formidable shipping hazard outside the Golden Gate Bridge within the northerly course of swimmers who attempt solo swims and relays between the Golden Gate Bridge and the Farallon Islands. On rough days, the wide expanse of relatively shallow reef looks like white frosting on a
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CANADA. World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation was a non-profit corporation that governed the professional marathon swimming circuit in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. It was headquartered in Maryland USA when Herman Willemse (shown on right) was its President and Joe Grossman was its Secretary-Treasurer upon its adoption in 1967. The World Professional Marathon Swimming Federationn
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ENGLISH CHANNEL. More people have been in outer space than have swum across the English Channel. This oft-used quote is a dramatic indication how difficult it is to swim across the English Channel. But is it true? Open Water Source used the universally accepted data on astronauts from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale and the English
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Swedish lids are the calluses that appears as a bump of flesh on the upper eyelids of swimmers who wear Swedish goggles, a popular type of swimming goggles worn by many competitive pool and open water swimmers. The calluses are caused by pressure or friction on the skin caused by the plastic edge of the
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The Brian Curtis Mile is part of the Cadiz Swim Series in South Africa. The event was started in 1999 in memory of Brian Curtis, one of the founding directors of Cadiz Holdings Limited, in 1994. As a director of Cadiz his main role was to implement and develop the fixed income research and broking
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Twins Chris And Matt Hales Create Goggles for Guppies Courtesy of WOWSA, Mission Viejo, California. 12-year old twin brothers Chris and Matt Hales swim for the Mission Viejo Nadadores in Southern California. Motivated after seeing the plight of disadvantaged children during an international swim meet in Mexico, the twin competitive swimmers took matters into their
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New to the annual Swim Miami ocean event in Florida, Jonathan Strauss is hosting the inaugural Media Challenge on April 21st. Each media company will be given the opportunity to send a representative to the Challenge to compete in a short race. “Beware. We did say challenge, so there will be obstacles along the way.
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